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Unire vsautres intrisa ernten EMMlll GRANT REYNOLDS, l" NICHOLSON,PENNSYLVANIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.-

Patented June 8, l1909.

Application filed March 28, 1907. Serial No. 366,113.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMME'r GRANT REY! Notes. a citizen ot' the UnitedStatesiresiding al Nicholson, in the county of Wyomingy State ot'Pennsylvania, have invented eertain'new aud useful Improvements inBoxes; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description ol the invention,

lsuch as will enable others skilled in the art,

therefore to produce a box of such construevtion that it. cannot beopened except by destroying it thereby preventing any possibility of itsfuture use.

A further object ofthe invention is to.

provide a locking means of such construetion that it may be reversed atone end or side of the box so that the box 4can be opened by thepurchaser of the goods Without destroying the box. My device is alsoapplicable to very heavy envelops. t

.ln the aeconapanyinn drawings, Figure 1 '35 .is a vertical longitudinalsectional view through a box constructed in accordance with .myinvention, Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical sectional View therethrough,and, Fig. 3 is a perspective View of one end of the coveijfor the box.4

6 Referring more specilically tothe drawings the box is shown ascomprising. a body 10 including ends 11 and there is shown a strip orfalse end'lQ which is secured at its ends or in other words at oppositesides of its middle to one end of the box it being `understood thatthere are t-Wo such strips, one for each end, and formed in cach stripis a rectangular opening 1,3. 'l`he top of the box is indicated by thenumeral let and pasted or otherwise secured upon thel upper face of thetop is a strip 15 of paste board or other suitable material from whichthe box is also made. This 'stripineludes a dependingl tongue 16 whichprojet-ts through a slot formed at the ends of the top upon the innerface of which is Jr'ormed a button 1T of the same or greater thicknessthan the strips 12. The opening 13 in each strip 12 is located at themiddle of the strip and the tongues 16 are similarly located so thatthey may be inserted between the strips and the ends of the box when thetop is applied thereto. When so inserted these buttons 1'( will moveinto the'openings 13 in the strips and by reason of the ,tact that thestrips 12 normally rest against the ends I ot' the box, the tongues 1Gwill be held against movement to` displace thc buttons 17 from theopenings `in which they seat.

From the foregoing it will be readily understood that after being` onceapplied to the body of the box, the top cannot be removed except bydestroyingthetougue 16 i as these tongues and the b'uttons thereon arehidden from view. l

It is to be understood that l do not desire to be limited to the exactdetails ot' construction for obvious modifications will occur to aperson 'skilled in the art.

lVhat is claimed is:

1. box having an outer casing, a relatively thin and yieldable false endniece held in said casing at each end thereof, each of said false endpieces havingan aperture therethrough and having its top edge in theplane of the top edges of the box, a cover tor said box, tonguesdepending from said cover in spaced parallel relrtion-to the endsthereoi"5 and buttons on said tongues adapted to enter said aperturesand hold the cover from withdrawal, said buttons having their surfacestiush with the inside of the box when in positionv to maintain an'unbroken inner surface in said box. l'

Q. A box having an outer casing, a relatively thin and yieldable falseend piece held in lsaid casing at each end tht-reet'.y and normallyrtsting against said. end, each et said false end pieces having anaperture ther-ef lnough and having' its 'top edge in the plane of thetop edges o? the box, a cover for said box, tongues depending from said.cover in spaced parallel relaon lo the ends thereof, and buttons on saidJnongues adapted to enter sacl apertures and hold -he cover fromWithdrawal, said buttons having lheir surfaces flush With the inside oehe box when n position to maintain nn unbroken inner surface of saidbox.

In teslimony whereof, I allx my si gnature, in presence of twowitnesses. EMMET GRANT REYNOLDS. Witnesses M. J. SEAMANS,

H. l/V. SnAMANs.

